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Last time I was looking for a job (almost exactly a year ago now) that's pretty much what I told recruiters: "My expected salary is X; add 20% if they expect m
by vidarh 3y ago
Last time I was looking for a job (almost exactly a year ago now) that's pretty much what I told recruiters:
"My expected salary is X; add 20% if they expect me in the office".
It's purely a question of competition: I knew I could land a remote job paying X, and did, so I had no incentive to incur extra costs and lost time to go into an office unless I was paid extra for it. I ended up turning down several offers where people didn't get the memo and thought they could talk me around. In the end I was right about my market rate WFH.
- hot_gril 3y agoThat sounds about right and similar to what I experienced last time I was looking for backup offers. You won't convince an in-office team to take a new remote employee, but you can find partially-remote teams (sometimes even within the same company), only they will offer less money. Also, my pay was automatically reduced 10% when I went remote, not because they expect less work from me but because the market rate is different now. Not bad actually.
- vidarh 3y agoI'm my case I found a company where almost everyone in including the C-suite is almost entirely remote and is spread everywhere. I'd be very cautious about taking a job where being remote isn't the norm because it makes it a lot of extra effort to avoid being sidelined. In that case I might prefer going in.
- hot_gril 3y agoYeah, if most are in an office then you can't even trust them saying your job will remain remote. It's mixed where I am. C-suite is partially remote. Some higher-ups aren't remote, but they're in a separate city from my team. Managers on my team used to never come to the office, but lately they have been. And even in-office people are only there 2-3 days a week. I think the biggest thing reducing my risk is the mix of office locations at this point.